for we are ABOUT TO ROCK!!! Yes, folks the Consumers are actually having practice again. Can you believe it?
And speaking of rocking, I had my employee review today, and in short, I rock. I got a bonus and everything. Overall, I scored a 5 out of 7, which is pretty darn good. 7 is pretty much impossible to get, and 6 is super out of the ordinary. I’m “above average for my peer group” apparently. HAH!
The part of me that’s pure unadulterated evil and delights in base, petty thoughts (I think it’s the toe between the little middle toes on my right foot) is hoping that Sarah CS is reading this right now so she can see that I’m awesome and she shouldn’t have fired me, terrorist or not. The rest of me, however, doesn’t really give a shit.
What is that toe called, anyway? It’s like your Ring Toe.
Oh, for the record: Bamboozled was an awful, lame, boring, movie. It kept raising interesting questions, but then immediately backed down from them and instead focused on trite, forced-sounding dialogue between characters you couldn’t care less about. I think it was supposed to be controversial, but it was kind of all over the place in trying to decide what that main point was, so everything got watered down. Spike Lee should have made a documentary instead–he had some brilliant ideas, and some funny moments, but just let them fall apart. The result was b o r i n g.
Furthermore, It used a lot of cheap shock tactics, I think. The kind of people who probably saw this movie in droves were liberal white Americans, who probably squirmed, cried, and felt guilty about the various montages of African Americans in pop culture from the 1900s until now. Yes, it’s true that America is a racist country that was founded on racism and continues to perpetuate racist stereotypes today. The idea of taking one period in history people would like to forget and parading it around as modern prime-time entertainment in hopes of showing all the hypocrisy is a very interesting one. However, it’s almost like once he brought up that idea, Spike Lee didn’t develop it much more. I felt that it was more like “hey, let’s show some back people in black face and watch with glee as people squirm!”
It was kind of like Spike Lee’s The Producers at first, with The Mantan minstrel Show as his “Springtime for Hitler”: The only way the main character (Pierre Delacroix) can get out of his contract with the network that he works for is to get fired. So, he comes up with the most obnoxious thing he can think of… and little by little spends time trying to justify his ideas until he is somewhat convinced by them. This process was interesting… but then you have the Love Interest, the Love Interest’s brother, who is in an underground political-oid gang, and a couple of other subplots, and it all gets unevenly diluted until the end, where Delacroix goes nuts (cop out!) and … well… I don’t want to spoil it.
Whoa, I just spent 3 paragraphs on my review. OK then. Moving on…
On another note, we also watched “Red Eye” which sucked in that special way. I love cheesy disaster-type movies involving airplanes. They’re almost as good as ones involving boats. Kilian Murphy is awesome as a bad guy with no real point, and Rachel McAdams was good as the whiny target struggling with predictable past demons. Overall, very enjoyable with a lot of beer and friends to yell at the screen with.
